"How did you and Jiang Shu meet?" Gu Zhiyun asked.
Liang Junsheng was silent for a while before saying, "Six months ago, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer and has been hospitalized ever since. How long he lives depends on how much money we can give the hospital. I really had no money left, so I took my lab report to the National Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute, hoping to beg them to give me another chance, because I felt that my research topic was very valuable. It was on that occasion that I met Jiang Shu, who is not only a professor at Beijing University but also an honorary professor at the National Aerospace Science and Technology Research Institute. He was very interested in my research topic and spent two hundred yuan to buy my lab report."
Gu Zhiyun was surprised: "You sold your intellectual property for two hundred yuan? Do you know how much Jiang Shu gets paid for his papers published in international academic journals?"
"How could I not know? I published papers back in the day!"
Liang Junsheng became a little agitated. "But what can I do? My dad is lying in the hospital needing life-saving medicine. I can't just watch him die! I admit I'm spineless. I'd bow down for a pittance, but in the face of poverty, what backbone, what integrity, are all empty words!"
Having said that, Gu Zhiyun finally understood Liang Junsheng's attitude.
He voluntarily sold his thesis topic to Jiang Shu, so how could he possibly cooperate with Old Man Xu to investigate Jiang Shu's plagiarism?
Poverty seems to be the root of all wrongdoing.
"You can leave now, and don't come looking for me again."
Liang Junsheng politely gave him the order to leave, saying, "Although I don't really admire Jiang Shu's character, he did help me out. If I offend him too, I won't have a job to support my family."
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